Sadly we ran out of time to finish off our first Littlenose book in class relating to our class topic of the Stone Age. I don’t want to forget and I can imagine my p2s would love to hear the rest of it. So enjoy a little video as we finish off our book.
Littlenose – The Hero
During this time we are all at home, it gives us a chance to spend time inside doing things we regularly don’t often give enough time to. Feeling inspired by Mr.Reid’s Music Journey I wanted to give myself the challenge too to learn something new. Like Mr.Reid I want to learn something that I can use in the future. Thinking about my interests I’ve decided to combine a few ideas together into one big project.
I’m going to create a web series. Throughout I’m going to learn about filming, editing, special effects, script writing and I want you to join and help me along the way.
I have taken home a variety of supplies from school to enable me to bring our wild and wacky stories to life, yes I did say OUR! It wont just be me who will be doing the work. Together we will work together and learn about creative writing, characterisation, graphic design and many more.
Imagine the Magic Key from Biff, Chip and Kipper, mixed with Jumanji, add a dash of bedtime stories, all told through story cubes and you will have my idea of the Web Show.
6 cubes will be rolled each time, an episode will cover the first three cubes. It will be your task to look at the remaining cubes and write the second half of the story. It will be up to me to choose one or combine a few ideas and film the next episode. These stories can be as imaginative as possible as it will be up to me to figure out how to bring the story to life learning new digital skills along the way while staying at home.
Your Success Criteria
If you can think of a tagline for the show, that would also be great to add to your design. Or you can try to create an animation for the title sequence on Scratch Jr.
Here is a picture of the cubes that will be found in the package.
Your logo designs can be created in any art medium you want. Please email me your designs on my glow to gw18mutchconnor. I look forward to viewing your designs after the holidays.
For those of you who have been doing the mild tasks on handwriting, focusing on your letter formations, here is a challenge on size.
In P2 we were focusing on getting our letters the correct size and to sit on the line properly. Once you are confident in how a letter should look you can challenge yourself to learn how to write it on the line properly.
When we are writing on the line we can imagine 3 invisible lines or you can mark a soft dotted line to practise with.
The dotted line underneath is to show how far our tails can go on our letters such as – q,y,p,f,g,j
The first dotted line above our line shows the half way mark, this is where most of our letters will touch. Letters such as – q,w,e,r,y,u,o,p,a,s,d,g,h,j,k,z,x,c,v,b,n,m.
The second dotted line is where we see the stems of our letters reach to. These letters include – t,d,h,k,l,b
I was practising my letters in a sentence, but I don’t think I’ve got it just yet. My sentence has 20 letters can you tell me which letters are correct? Could you tel me what I need to fix? Actually, could you rewrite the sentence correctly to show me where I’ve gone wrong. That would be an excellent form of feedback if you could speak me through how the letters should look on the line.
I love creative writing, especially when I have to think of a story with very little to go off of. It could be a picture, a video, a song that could be the inspiration for a story and from there you can build the world of your story to be anything.
I was really intrigued to give the Pobble HOT challenge a go, it was going to be my first HOT Challenge and I was really excited to try it. I felt much more confident after following Miss Deans Sway the other day on how to help build my story. She gave me tips and different things that I could consider to help make my piece of writing better.
On the website link there were lots of things to do relating to the picture so I decided to give them all a go and hopefully they would help me to create my story.
Here is a PDF link to my finished story, it can also be found at the end of my sway.
Pobble About to Hatch Story Starter
This is a great little project that can be completed over a longer period of time and it has all been created from one picture! How have you all got on with your Pobbles?
Have fun exploring double numbers with paint dots.
I made a rainbow by starting with 7 dots and using the 7 different colours from the rainbow.
This time start with an even amount
Think about which double number story you could make
I used 2 egg boxes to make ten frames
I found pompoms and baubles to make double number stories with.
I have also shown the number stories with numicon which I know very few of you would have at home but they help you to see the double number stories in your mind.
Start with even amounts to 10
Move onto even amounts to 20
Maybe some of you would challenge yourselves even further!
I thought I would share with you all a journal entry I did following the sentence starts for Mild from last Thursday. It has been quite strange the past week with lots of sudden changes to our normal routine. This has been quite challenging and once or twice I have forgotten what day it is. But on Thursday I went for a very long walk and counted so many beautiful rainbows in the people’s windows. Then in the evening I wanted to take part in #clapforourcarers but didn’t know what would happen at 8pm. It was so lovely to open my lounge window and clap with so many other people with cheering and chanting. It was the first time that week that I had really interacted with other people.
How has your Journal Writing gone? Are you writing daily / every few days?
I also shared with you my idea of documenting this time on my journal cover, so I thought I would share with you how it is looking so far, is anybody else doing a doodle cover?
Good morning boys and girls,
I spent yesterday making some resources to help you with this mild challenge from Literacy Grid 1.
Letter Formation
Choose a family of letters to practise each day.
Watch the videos to help you form the letters
Down and bounce family of letters
Think about a ball dropping down to the ground.
When it hits the ground it bounces back up and then often moves forward making an invisible rainbow line, curved line.
These letters always begin at the top, (a ball won’t bounce far if you don’t start with it up high);
with a straight line being drawn down.
The pencil travels back up the straight line;
and then the pencil is used to draw a curved line to the right, that line ends in different ways for the letters in this family.
Before you start to form your letters remember to warm up your hand by drawing curved lines – try drawing clouds and rainbows.
I have started a drawing that would help you practise these movements before you write letters from the down and bounce family. Click on the picture above to see a larger version for you to copy.
I wonder who might be holding the umbrella and have their feet in the boots?
A rainbow is drawn with curved lines
Clouds are a wonderful way to draw joined curved lines and this helps to improve fluidity.
Spirals could form puddles and lots of short diagonal lines can cover the page with rain. Zig zag lines could form grass.
Enjoy!
The videos in the Sway below show you how to write the the letters in this family.
Hello Everyone,
You will have seen many people commenting in posts and speaking about Sway.
A few of the classes were shown Sway on final few days of school. That seems quite a long time ago now and it was a lot to remember. I have tried to make my first video tutorial to explain again. As teachers we are also learning new things and it’s very exciting.
Below you will find a Sway which takes you through all the steps in how to access Sway, Create your Sway and Share your Sway. It is split into four parts so that you can focus on the specific instruction you need support with.
There is lots of information but once you start to play around with the program it does become quite easy to follow.
Please DO NOT comment your Sway links on a blog post. The blog is public for everyone to get access to. Your sways should only be able to be accessed and edited by your teachers and yourself. If you make a new sway and want to share it with your teachers, please either send the link in an email or on seesaw.
You can also follow this link to Microsoft’s Youtube which offers multiple videos on Sway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcg6DGO9hpI
I hope this helps, please do not hesitate to comment any questions.
Hello. I had a look at the numeracy grids and I liked the idea of a Grid 1 Mild challenge- a number spotting walk around my house. I was looking for odd numbers- here’s what I found. What odd number are in your house ?
